BabushkaiSystem Design Patterns

18 sections · 118 articles · patterns used at Netflix, Uber, Stripe & Discord

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Foundations

ACID transactions, CAP theorem, consistency models, and distributed time

Distributed Databases

Replication, partitioning, consensus algorithms, and distributed transactions

Storage Engines

B-trees, LSM trees, SSTables, write-ahead logging, and column storage

Caching

Cache strategies, invalidation patterns, and multi-tier caching architectures

Messaging Systems

Message queues, event sourcing, CQRS, and exactly-once delivery semantics

Scaling Patterns

Load balancing, sharding, rate limiting, circuit breakers, and backpressure

Real-Time Systems

Polling, SSE, WebSockets, WebRTC, and presence systems

Case Studies

Architecture deep-dives into Twitter, Netflix, Uber, Stripe, and Discord

Whitepapers

MapReduce, Dynamo, Spanner, Raft, Kafka, and Aurora paper summaries

Security

Authentication, OAuth2, JWT, API security, zero trust, and encryption

Observability

Distributed tracing, metrics, monitoring, logging, and alerting

Service Mesh

Service discovery, API gateways, and the sidecar pattern

Data Pipelines

Batch processing, stream processing, and lambda/kappa architectures

Search Systems

Inverted indexes, vector search, ranking algorithms, and typeahead

Deployment

Deployment strategies, blue-green, canary releases, and feature flags

LLM Systems

Agents, RAG, prompt engineering, fine-tuning, and context management

GraphQL

Schema design, resolvers, DataLoader, subscriptions, and federation

18Sections

118Articles

10Case Studies

10Whitepapers

Like the layers of a Matryoshka doll, great systems are built layer by layer. 118 articles covering distributed systems fundamentals through production-ready architectures used at Netflix, Uber, Stripe, and Discord.

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